Women of Ancient Rome: To Survive Under the Patriarchy Telford Lynda
The women of Ancient Rome, were obliged to maintain the "Mos maiorum," the established order of things. Romulus himself was believed to have devised the almost indissoluble marriage rite, the…
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The women of Ancient Rome, were obliged to maintain the "Mos maiorum," the established order of things. Romulus himself was believed to have devised the almost indissoluble marriage rite, the "Confarreatio," which put a wife under the absolute power of her husband. She could not divorce him, but he could divorce her.According to legend, Rome was a settlement of warlike young men, from Alba, an area in the Alban Hills just southeast of Rome.When they settled there, they inaugurated the earliest of Rome's traditions, including the relationship between men and women. Any woman who lapsed from the required level of "spectacular" virtue was fiercely punished, and the failings of women would often be the center of Rome's legends, such as the battle between the Horatii in Rome and the Curiattii in Alba in the seventh century BC.Women of Ancient Rome describes how
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